Improved spring-bed bottom



intrd @Serial-12e JULIUs For, or @Mounier-Ireen.

Letters Patent No. 96,686,-dated November 9, 1869.

IMPROVED ,SPRING-BBD BOTTOM. i

The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To allvhom it may concern Be itV known that I, .Turnus Fox, of Albion,in the county of Calhoun, and State of Michigan, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Spring- Bed Bottoms; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making. partot' this specitication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,like letters indicating llike parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art toV construct and use my invention,I will proceed to describe it.

My invention relates-to spring-bed bottoms; and

The invention consists in the special arrangement ofthe partsconstituting the device, as hereinafterex-- plained.

Figurel is atop plan View;

Figure 2 is a side elevation; and

Figure 3 is an end view.

Many plans have been-devised for arranging the springs, slats, 85o., inspring-bed bottoms, but most of them are expensive, or liable to get outof order.

The object of my present invention is to produce one that shall beextrelnely simple, cheap, and durable', and that can he put into anordinary hedstead by any carpenter or similar mechanic, or' by theperson himself without the aid of a mechanic.

In nearly all bedsteads, as made at the present day, there are cleatssecured along the inside of the siderails, for the slats to rest on.

In applying my bottom to -such bedsteads, I leave these cleats inposition, and where they do not exist, I nail on a short cleat or pieceof board at each inside corner.

I then provide two slatsl or narrow pieces of board A, of proper lengthto reach across the hedstead, and rest on these cleats, one at the head,and the other at the foot; .these hars A being shown in figs. 2 and 3.

Upon these I place two slats or narrow hoardsB, lengthwise of thebedstead, one at each side; and on these slats or bars B, I secure a rowof coiled springs, a, thus forming a row of springs along each side ofthe bedstead, from head to foot.

VUpon these springs, I placca corresponding series of slats, C, (theseslats mailing crosswise of thebed, the same as the cross-bars A,) eachslat C resting ou two springs, one at each end, as shown in iig. 3. l

lo secure these slats C in place, and prevent them from being tippedover with` the springs, I use two cords, c and e.

The cord c is secured to one ofthe end-slats, and from thence I extendit to and around the next slat, and so on the whole length of thebottom, as represented more clearly in iig. 2.

The other cord er, I fasten to one end of the long bar B, then pass itnpover'the irst slat O, where it, with the cord c, passes through asmall staple driven into the Slat; from thence it is passed down to and,arounda'pim Z,'on the inneredge of thebar B, midway between thetwoadjoining slats, and then up over the next slat, and so on to theopposite end of' the bottom.

This same arrangement ofthe cord c and e is re peated on theoppositeside of the bottom, as represented in iig. 1.

In making these' bottoms, I use two sizes of springs, placing one setofthe weaker ones at the head, then four sets of the stronger ones, andthen three sets of the weaker ones at the foot.

By this arrangement an equal number of each kind is "required, and thestrongest springs are brought where. the greatest weight is applied tothem; thus preventing that sagging at the centre that is vsure to occurwhen springs of uniform strength are used throughout. By this plan ofconstructing the bed-bottom, the ordinary cross-slats can be utilized bybeing placed onj the springs, while an ordinary narrow fence-board cutin two will just make the bars B, and another, the crossbarsA, thusmaking avery simple and cheap bottom,

and enabling almost any person to readily convert an ordinary Slat-bedyinto a spring-bed with but triing expense. l

I am aware that all the elements constituting my, bed-bottom have beenused in one form or another, and, therefore, I do not claim eitherseparately, nor do I claim them combined, irrespective of the specialmanner of using or combining them; but having-thus described myinvention,

A spring-bed bottom, consisting of the cross-bars A, side-bars B, andsprings a, with the slats C, held' in place by the cords c and e appliedthereto, and all arranged as herein described. y

. JULIUS FOX.

Witnesses:

G. W. DAvs, EUGENE P. RoBnRrsoN.

